Finder seeks couple from 'lovely' wedding photo
SuppliedA woman is hoping to reunite a decades-old wedding photo with the couple pictured — or their family — after finding it on the floor.
The passport-sized black and white photo shows a young man, apparently dressed in a naval uniform, and a fair-haired woman wearing a hat.
Donna Stocking, from Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, found it in a women's clothing shop in Ely, Cambridgeshire, in about 2017, but thinks the couple were pictured in the 1960s.
Having posted the image several times on social media over the years, she said: "This is almost my last try, but to be honest, I can't throw it away because, just look at the way she is looking at him in the picture — this is someone's history."
A self-confessed "photo fan", Mrs Stocking said she was working at a boutique called Artichoke in The Passage, off High Street, Ely, when she came across the tiny photo "in or near the entrance" to the shop.
She suspects it had fallen out of someone's purse.
Mrs Stocking has a large collection of all sorts of photos but said this one was special because "it's clearly a wedding photo".
She put the image on social media at the time but received no responses or leads to help her find the couple.
"I'd been sorting through my pictures, and this is one I just can't throw away," she said.
"They look like they're in their young 20s, and maybe it was taken in the 1960s or later, but I'm not sure.
"Whoever they are, or whenever it was taken, just look at the way she is looking at him? I really hope they are still together."
Mrs Stocking posted the picture once again on an Ely Facebook group and is hoping if the couple are not on social media themselves, perhaps a family member might recognise them.
"It's such a lovely photograph, isn't it? Wouldn't it be great to find them, or maybe their children, if they had them, and reunite it," she added.
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